E.

Woman under old religions--Woman took part in offices of early
Christian Church Councils--Original sin--Celibacy of the
clergy--Their degrading sensuality--Feudalism--Marriage--Debasing
externals and debasing ideas--Witchcraft--Three striking points
for consideration--Burning of Witches--Witchcraft in New
England--Marriage with devils--Woman's Right of property not
recognized--Wife ownership--Women legislated for as
slaves--Marriage under the Greek Church--The Salic
law--Cromwellian era--The Reformation--Woman under monastic rules
in the Protestant home--Polygamy taught by Luther and other
Protestant Divines--The Mormon doctrine regarding woman its
logical result--Milton responsible for many existing views in
regard to woman--Woman's subordination taught to-day--The See
trial--Right Rev. Dr. Cox--Rev. Knox-Little--Pan-Presbyterians--
Quakers not as liberal as they have been considered--Restrictive
action of the Methodist Church--Offensive debate upon
ordaining Miss Oliver--The Episcopal Church and its
restrictions--Sunday-school teachings--Week-day-school
teachings--Sermon upon woman's subordination by the President
of a Baptist Theological Seminary--Professor Christlieb of
Germany--"Dear, will you bring me my shawl?"--Female sex looked
upon as a degradation--A sacrilegious child--Secretary Evarts,
in the Beecher-Tilton trial, upon woman's subordination--Women
degraded in science and literature--Large-hearted men upon
woman's degradation--Wives still sold in the market-place as
"mares," led by a halter around their necks--Degrading servile
labor performed by woman in Christian countries--A lower
degradation--"Queen's women"--"Government women"--Interpolations
in the Bible--Letter from Howard Crosby, D.D., LL.D--What is
Truth?

Woman is told that her present position in society is entirely due to
Christianity, and this assertion is then made the basis of opposition
to her demands for exact equality with man in all the relations of
life. Knowing that the position of every human being keeps pace with
the religion and civilization of his country, and that in many ancient
nations woman had secured a good degree of respect and power, as
compared even with that she has in the present era, it has been
decided to present this subject from a historical standpoint, and to
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